GLOW FISH TRANSGENIC SPECIES

GLOW FISH TRANSGENIC SPECIES

1. PROS

   • environmental peaceful, doesn't cause any harm
   • Increases the fish market - (cost about 2-3$ to make and sell 5-6$)
   • easy to reproduce because they their decedent would carry that gene
   • can communicate the scientist when water is polluted
   • With itself had fetched additional qualities

2. CONS

   • Humans aren't allowed to consume GloFish
   • The GloFish cannot survive in cold waters (their habitat is in tropical waters)
   • Risk of exploitation
   • Disturbance of genetic information
   • The following countries: Australia, Canada and Europe ban the commercial marketing of GloFish because they're GMOs

3. TECHNIQUE

4. Glofish are a type of transgenic zebrafish that have been modified through the insertion of a green fluorescent protein (GFP) gene. There are several GFP genes that code for the different colour phenotype.

5. Fluorescent glofish are bred to protect environmental pollutants. Scientists can determine when a the waterway is contaminated.

6. HOW IT WORKS fluorescent colour is produced by a fluorescent protein gene. gene goes into the genome of the embryo, the developing fish will pass on the same genes to its offspring.

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